HUNGARIAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
(MAGYAR ELEKTRONIKUS KÖNYVTÁR)
Latest Update: 27 August 1996
Welcome to the Hungarian Electronic Library!
The Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK) is one of the projects of the Hungarian National
Infrastructure Development Program, and it will (hopefully) be the central collection of the
public-domain Hungarian electronic texts for educational, scientific research, and cultural
purposes. The MEK's central, gopher-based service is available at this URL (address):
gopher://gopher.mek.iif.hu
The new WWW interface http://www.mek.iif.hu/ is
under construction. This service is still in "experimental" phase, so shortcomings and
malfunctions are possible.
You can get further information about the electronic library under the "Help desk" menu, and
about the MEK project under the "MEK project archives". The library collection is in the
"Reading room" arranged by topic, and there is the searchable catalog, too.
All of the documents are stored locally on the helka.iif.hu host. We have put the necessary
viewer, utility and decoding programs under the "Cloakroom and tool-house" menu.
You can read the electronic library news on the "Library bulletin board", and write your
comments or ideas into the "Visitors' book" or to the mek-l@huearn.sztaki.hu mailing list.
And last but not least: there is a growing collection of links under the "World-wide virtual
library" menu, pointing to other Hungarian and foreign servers with electronic books, journals
and e-document archives, and to the most popular Internet search systems.
Happy browsing!
The MEK librarians:
Istvan Moldovan moldovan@pernix.bke.hu
Laszlo Drotos kondrot@gold.uni-miskolc.hu
Additional Comments from Laszlo:
- Hungarian Maps: "We have just started collecting maps. The first aim was to
build a full-text archive, so we have only a few historical maps, yet." Laszlo Drotos of MEK requested permission to post four maps of Hungary found in the FEEFHS Map
Room.
This was approved in August 1996 and they are now available on the MEK site at this gopher
site: gopher://gopher.mek.iif.hu/hh/porta/szint/egyeb/terkep/feefhs
- History Bookshelf: The 'History bookshelf' also is 'under developement'. The
Banat history article by Sue Clarkson has been put on the History "bookshelf": gopher://gopher.mek.iif.hu:70/hh/porta/szint/tarsad/tortenel (the file name is: banat.hun). There are a few similar texts
in this menu, but they are in Hungarian. (They are historical documents about the German
[nemet] minorities in Hungary.)
- Other Bookshelves:We seek 'bookshelf owners' ('virtual librarians'), who develop
and maintain the specific shelves. The majority of our collection now is under the 'Computer
science', 'Library science', 'Classical literature', 'Economics' and 'Politics' menu, which already
have their 'owners'.
- Languages: Most of the documents are written in Hungarian, but there are some
English texts too, e.g. on the 'History' shelf.
- Example of MEK Map listing:
TI: Central Hungary - Banat Region, 19th century NA: Ted Gostin (digitalizalo)
DT: terkep
PD: 1882 (eredeti nyomtatott kiadas)
PD: 1996 (elektronikus kiadas)
NO: 1:2,700,000 (meretarany)
SO: Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World - SO: Blackie & Sons, Edinburgh,
1882. (nyomtatott atlasz) SO: FEEFHS East European Map Room (elektronikus verzio) SO:
URL: http://www.feefhs.org/maps/ah/mapiah.html
KW: Magyarorszag, 19. sz.
KW: Hungary, 19th century
NT: Courtesy of Federation of East European Family History NT: Societies -- Copyright
1996, FEEFHS, all rights reserved
- MEK Copyright Restriction:
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"This document comes from the Hungarian Electronic Library (abbr. MEK). The copyright
and other privileges are owned by the author/owner of the document (if he/she is known). If
the author or owner expressly specifies conditions regarding the distribution and usage
somewhere in this text, then those terms overrule the limitations stated below.
"Furthermore he or she is responsible for that too, that the distribution of this document in
electronic form doesn't hurt some other person authorship rights. The MEK administrators
reserve the right to withdrawn the document from the MEK collection, if any doubt appears
about the free distribution of this document.
"This document can be freely copied and distributed, but you can use it only for personal
purposes and non-commercial applications, without modifying it, and with proper citation to
the original source. Every other form of distribution and utilization requires a permission
from the author/owner. This copyright statement must be left unaltered in this document.
"The Hungarian Electronic Library project's aim is to provide the academic circles with public
domain e-texts in Hungarian or with relevance to Hungary. You can get information and ask
questions about the MEK project at the MEK-L@huearn.sztaki.hu e-mail address. The URLs
of the central MEK Internet services are: http://www.mek.iif.hu, gopher://gopher.mek.iif.hu
and ftp://ftp.iif.hu/pub/MEK."
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